gazebos

Noun

gazebo (plural gazebos or gazeboes)

1. A belvedere, either a type of summer-house or a roofed, detached porch-like structure, usually in a yard, park or lawn.
   • Ann dye Ned inn a gaze ay beau a pun a past Eye maid off any Sun ("and dined in a gazebo upon a pasty made of venison")Harold Williams, editor (1965), The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, volume iv, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 246
2. A dismountable shelter comprising a roof or awning supported by poles, and often having removable sides; a canopy tent
   • They started screwing aluminium rods together, like they were going to assemble a gazebo.2018 May 15, Miriam Lord, “Repealing angels have something to hide at Leinster House”, in The Irish Times
3. (Ireland, derogatory) a gaudy, incongruous, or flimsy structure or object
   • 'I'll thank ye tell me what they mean by that old gazabo on the top of the market-place,' said she, in a burst of ridicule fit to have brought the old tower down.1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, “In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries”, in Vanity Fair, London: Bradbury and Evans, page 242